glazing over

Verb

glaze over (third-person singular simple present glazes over, present participle glazing over, simple past and past participle glazed over)

1. (intransitive) To become unfocused, as if through boredom.
   • Someone's eyes may glaze over before or during a seizure.
2. (intransitive) To form a glazed coating: to ice over or otherwise to become covered in a glossy sheen.
3. (proscribed, transitive, viewed as catachrestic) To gloss over.
   • An important issue that is often glazed over.